She has published four books of poetry, besides a number of poems in literary journals.

[1] Barbara Wiedemann was born on October 30, 1945, and grew up in upstate New York.

[1] Wiedemann has published poems in a number of journals, including Kaleidoscope, Kerf, Poetry Motel, and Acorn.

[citation needed] Four of her collections were published by Finishing Line Press: Half-Life of Love (2008), Sometime in October (2013), Death of a Pope and Other Poems (2012), and Desert Meditations (2018).

[1][2] Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem.